Industry media vet Cooke dies at 76

LOUISVILLE Ky. Phillip S. Cooke, a lifelong foodservice communications specialist who served as editor in the early 1960s of the publication that became Nation’s Restaurant News, died of a heart attack last week at age 76. Cooke was the retired president and founder of FSA Group, an association management and public affairs company based here. Cooke sold the company in 2003 to NRN’s parent, Lebhar-Friedman Inc.In 1982, Cooke convened an event called the Symposium on American Cuisine ...

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